Category reblogs

I cycled through most of New England (on a full-sized bike) two years ago with one small backpack and one change of clothes. I’m probably going to do Gettysburg and Hapers Ferry sometime this May. My principle on long distance rides is “the less stuff the better.” But it doesn’t quite work in the real […]

Originally posted on Telling it as it is: ? I am temporarily holding and updating Black Triangle’s list of people who have been affected by this governments policy of cuts and sanctions: Please read more about their ethos here: http://blacktrianglecampaign.org/about/ 14 Sep 2015 — The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) published guidance to Jobcentre officials…

I usually detest Sarah Kendzior but she’s 100% right about impeaching Trump. It is critical that the stakes are made clear. Refusal to impeach sends the message that the situation cannot possibly be that dire – it if were, the Democrats would move to impeach, right? This is the same disastrous miscalculation that gave us […]

A terrific piece of film criticism that analyzes the film Breaking Away in the context of the fall of the “white working class.” Indeed, Dave attempts to become a completely different person. He literally begins to identify as an Italian, or, rather, what he wants to believe an Italian is. Beneath the eccentricities (Dave becomes […]

Originally posted on The poor side of life: Wow, what a palaver it was last week, an extremely bad bout of rain and the hassle from the new Tameside One staff and security. It’s mind boggling that they wanted to move us when all we are doing is helping people, feeding people and signposting them.…

The Internet has always been a weapon, going back to its emergence out of the Pentagon in the 1960s as the ARPANET. One story I like to bring up is from 1969, when kids from Student for a Democratic Society at Harvard and MIT protested the Internet (then known as the ARPANET) as a dangerous […]

Originally posted on Aisle C: Intended to be open, free, and decentralized, it’s now dominated by a handful of companies that control what we see and what we can say. Jonathan TEPPER The internet was meant to be open, free, and decentralized, but today it is controlled by a few companies with grave consequences for…

Originally posted on Journal of People: by Alan MacLeod Venezuelanalysis | March 01 2019 Donald Trump addresses a a Florida audience on February 18, 2019. (Kevin Lamarque / Reuters) It is no secret that the United States has long been plotting regime change in Venezuela. For over 18 months President Trump has been publicly floating a military invasion…

Originally posted on 100 Flamingos: The Racist Venezuelan Bourgeoisie’s Accusations Against Chavistas Are Pure Projection Social media truly is the great democratizer. Where else can Twitter trolls and bot armies create a web of baseless rumors that make their way into the empire’s leading publications? For example: “Maduro is a murdering criminal starving Venezuelan children while…

Originally posted on Media Diversified: Belgium Colonization and the Ignition of the HIV Global Pandemic by Dr. Lawrence Brown In an article entitled “The Early Spread and Epidemic Ignition of HIV-1 in Human Populations” in the magazine Science in October 2014, Nuno Faria and his fellow researchers revealed the location of Ground Zero for one…